Quotes: Affection

While I’ve lived in L.A. since 1985, I’ll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I’m able.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain’t exactly bad either.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don’t care about anything except affection and food. They’re loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.